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1,495,62l G. TURNER ET AL MACHINE FOR MAKING MATCH BOOKS Filed March 6. 1923 Sheets-Sheet 1 @capa/c famme/a May 27, 1924. 1,495,621

G. TURNER ET AL.

MACHINE FOR MAKING MATCH BOOKS .Patented May Z7, 1924.

" treatin narran sra'rns PATENT oramai GEORG-E TURNER AND WILLIAM H. SH()INJIR,4 OF BARBERTON, OHIO, ASSIGNORS TO' THE DIAMOND MATCH COlVIANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A. CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

MACHINE non MAKING MATCH Booirs.

Application filed March 6, 1923. Serial vvNo. 623,116.

To @ZZ whom t may concer/n.' 1

Be it known that we, GEORGE TRNER and ILLIAM H. SHoF'rER, both citizens of the United States, and residents of Barberton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making Match Books, of which the following is aspecification. i

This invention relates to machines for making match books, having reference more vespecially to the machine described in Letters Patent of the United States No. 1,042,- 4.72 dated Gctober 29, 1912, wherein an l5 endless carrier comprising links yhaving holders for the associated covers and cards of match books, is employed, together with a mechanism operative to apply frictional ignition substance t0 the end folds of the covers during their travel;

The object of our invention is to provide simple and efficient means whereby the uniform disposition ofthe succeeding books in respect to the friction applying mechanism, is ensured; and to that end we mount laterally of the carrier a rotary `book-positioning element which co-operates with the adjacent end of each succeeding holder in such a manner as to shift the opposing bookv to a definite position transversely ofthe carrier as the book approaches the friction applying mechanism.

The invention also comprises features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter describedy and claimed. In the drawings- Figure 1 is a plan of a portion of a matchbook machine equipped with. book-positioning mechanism embodying our invention, a succession of match covers being shown in the carrier of the machine.

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation, as on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 isa transverse vertical section, enlarged, through the carrier and associated parts, as on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a portion of the carrier and the book-positioning mechanism, showing the rotary element of the latter as acting upon an opposing book during the movement of the carrier; the eX- tended cover aps of two of the match-books being removed for clearness.

Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the said stituting a holder forthe associated cover 14 and cards 15-of a match book. The underside of the body is provided with rack teeth 16. i.,

The carrier is supported and guided upon a track structure 17 in the region of thev friction applying mechanism, Jwhich' mechanism includes a composition containing vessel 18, and a wheel 19 rotatable therein in a manner to apply the composition in a thin layer tothe underside of the end foldsof the succeeding covers as they progress above the wheel. This wheel is mounted on a suit-- ably-disposed shaft 20 having a spur wheel` 21 in mesh with a pinion 22 ,on a continuously driven shaftl 23.V4 Thus the wheel 19 is rotated. I

In mesh with the rack teeth of the carrier is a gear wheel -24 which is mounted on a suitably-disposed shaft 25 having a spur wheel 26'in mesh with the pinion 22, and hence continuous vmotion is transmitted to thecarrier in its travel in the region of the friction applying mechanism.

A freely rotatable pressure wheel 27 is mounted directly above the wheel 19 so asv to bear upon the-'folded ends of the .pro-

fcient contact with the latterwheel.

, 28v designates a book-positioning -wheel having a vertical axis (29)y of rotation ad-v jacent-the outer 4side 'of thecarrier and in proximity to the composition devices. Thisy wheel is formed with a series of equallyspaced arms 30 which are so disposed that their outer ends are successively engaged by the book holders of the traveling carrier, such arms thus partially entering, advancing with and receding from the holders. The wheel rotates in a horizontal plane directly beneath that of the match-book covers, and hence as each arm. enters or meshes with a holder the end of the arm bears against the opposing heads of the matches of the book contained in the holder and bodily pushes the book transversely of the carrier and against a suitably-disposed stop 8l which insures the accurate alinement of the folded ends of the covers with each other and with the composition-appljn ing wheel. This stop preferably comprises a metal plate secured to an arm or bracket on the track struc-ture 17.

ln the present instance the aXial stud 29 of Wheel 28 is mounted on an arm 33 that is pivoted7 as at 34, on a. bracket 35 secured to the track structure, said arm 33 having an outward extension 36 which is resiliently connected to the bracket 35 by means of a spring 37 that tendsV normally to pull the arm B3 and therewith the Wheel 28 toward the carrier. Extending; through the armv is a set-screw 38 which bears against the side of the track struc-ture and thus affords an adjustable stop by means of which the operative position of the Wheel in respect to the carrier can be nicely determined. The spring ensures the yielding` contact of the arms 8O of the Wheel With the match books l. The combination With -a carrier having a succession of holders for match-books, of a rotary book-positioning element mounted laterally' of the carrier and operative'to enter the adjacent end of each succeeding holder and shift the contained book therein transveresly of the carrier. A l I 2. The combination With al carrierhaving a succession of holders for match-books, of rotary book-positioning' element mounted laterally of the carrier and operative to enter ythe adjacent end of each succeeding holder and shift the containedv book therein transversely of the carrier, and means for adjusting said element toward and fromthe carrier.

3. The combination with a carrierhaving a succession of holdersfor match-books,

naeacai of a freely rotatable Wheel having its axis laterally of and at right angles to the path of travel of the carrier, and also having a series of spaced radial arms operative to enter the adjacent end of each succeeding holder and be advanced thereby in a manner to shift the opposing book transversely of the carrier.

rllhe combination with a carrier having a succession of holders for match-books, of a freely rotatable Wheel having its axis laterally of and at right angles tothe path of travel of the carrier, and also having a series of spaced radial arms operative to enter the adjacent end of each succeeding holder and be advanced'thcreby in a manner to shift the opposing book transversely of the carrier, and means for adjusting said Wheel toward and from the carrier.

5. The combination With a carrier having a'succession of holders for match-books, of a freely rotatable Wheel having its axis laterally of and at right angles to the path of travel of the carrier, and also having a series of spaced radial arms operative to enter the adjacent end of each succeeding holder and be advanced thereby in a manner to shiftthe opposing book transversly of the carrier7 a pivoted arm on Which the Wheel is supported7 a spring tending to move said arm inwardly toward the carrier, and a set-screw for determining the inward position of the arm.

6. The combination With a carrier having a succession of holders for match-books7 means adjacent one side of the carrier for applying friction material to the succeeding books during their travel, and a stop for the ends of said books as they approach and pass the friction applying means, of a rotary book-positioninga element mounted adjacent the opposite sid-e of the carrier and operative to enter the adjacentk end of each succeeding'holder and shift the opposing book transveresly of the carrier and against the end stop. f

Signed at Barberton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, this 2d day of ltiarch7 A. D. 1923.

GEQRGE TURNER. VVILLAM H.' SHOFTER. 

